you not then meet when independence is the confequence when country is the object? Yes-rally around the banners of the conftitution-demand in the ftrongeft terms allowed you, your rights and privileges.Let your ftandard be virtuous Freedom pported by the conftitution. Let every Irifhman grapple it to his very exiflence and arming his foul with all the honefty of patriotic virtne part with it only in death There is a fomething in the word Emancipation that fafcinates you; but call off the film from your eyes. Emancipation coming at this time would, I. fear, be alloyed by many bitter ingredients-but Repeal is the only fovereign reftorative of the male vigour of Ireland's genius. Yes, my Countrymen, a refident Parliament is the very falt of this ifland-lince the Union the nation has loft its genuine flavour. It is a Repeal alone that can uncreft the high intolerance of minifterial depravity. But let the corrupt minifter remember that Wolfey went far beyond his depth." Lethe wretch remember that "Corruption wins not more than honesty." "A nation gets rid of a tyrant only by his death or banishment." The maxim has fallen from the lips of biftory. This fingle maxim fpeaks daggers" to the fcribe of tyranny. Yet a tyrant is a monfler with but one head, whereas a tyrannic nation is a hydra. Must I figure my country under the hideous form of a hydra? When a people cannot fhake off the iron mace of defpotifin then indeed their cafe is truly pitiable; but when a whole people suffer themselves to be alienated from the pallà. dium of their liberties, there pity affumes the high tone of juft indignation, and fpurns the faded emblem of a peoples ftrength-of national dignity, and focial freedom. 10 Hibernia muff I live to fee thee degraded and defpifed ! Muft I behold thee difcarded from the lift of nations! Muft I live to fee thee unheeded by a nation, which was forced to own your political ability-a nation which could not but admire your martial prowefs. a nation in whofe fervice your military talents have difplayed themselves a a nation for whom your belt blood has flown !!! But muft I live to behold your very fons railing the arms of daggered treafon against your faireit rights. Yes Hibernia! it is then indeed you cry out in the tone of defpondency And thou too Brutus." People of Ireland? itay your ruthlefs arms. Meet--do but meet This long depending caufe was revi ved in the Patriot," on the 21ft of November, by Counsellor S---, late of the Riding-houfe army, at prefent Editor of the above Newfpaper, and Coupfel to the Police. The difpute originated in the following manner, and indeed the recollection of the circumftance leaves no great impreffion on the Irish mind of the great benefits conferred on us by English civilization; nor are we perfuaded by the legal eminence of Mr. S, that Mr. Pole's title to the lands of Ballyfin, is in any manner fo good as the O'Deveeys, from whom they were wrefted, because the poffeffion was obtained by a 'breach of faith, and a fubfequent malfacre; and we do not find in the courfe of the pleadings, or by any hiftorical document, that the O'Deveey's ever provoked the Wefleys, by any incur hions into England, and if the O'Dee. vys ever inflicted any injury on the Wef leys, the latter mult have been the caule of their own misfortune, by coming fo far from their dwellings, if they had any in England. " "The calends of January, on Tuef day. 1577. In this year the Eaghfh of Leinler and Meath, committed Horrid murders on fuch of the O'Moores and Connors, and others of the King's and Queen's counties, as kept the peace, fued for protection, and held no corref pondence with thofe of their indred, who fill ftood out in arms against the English government. The English published a proclamation, inviting all the well affected Irish to an interview on the Rathmore, at Mullogh alton, engaging at the fame time for their fecurity, and that na evil was intended, In confequence of this engagement the well affected came to the Rathmore aforefaid, and foon after they were affembled they found themfelves furrounded by three or four lines of English and Irith foot and horfe com. pletely accoutred, by whom they were ungenerously attacked and cut to pieces, and not à lingle man man efcaped. 25 702 207 This is the affair of Mullemast, and had not it happened, perhaps fome il luftrious O Deevy would now be engaged vindicating the honor or advancing the intereft of Ireland, inilead of a Wellesley who affects to do fo under the fpurious di lusion of Growing Profperity." Whenever the O'Deeveys refume their properties, a period we have no great reafon to fay is very diflant, we truft that the meaneft indvidual of that once illuftrious fept, will be capable of as much military talents, fenatorial wifdon, and political princi ple, as any of their adverfaries of the name of Welleyok e C Important Extracts from Newspapers. The very diftinguithed Juftice D-, whole military prowess made fo confpicuous a figure in the Coombe Campaign in 1803, has lately retired from public affairs. He has depofited the BATON and the Scales in the Head Office of Police. Though he has reHigned his military and judicial functions, he yet continues to ferve the public, for which purpofe he has endowed an Hofpital, three pair of ftairs up in a large houfe in Marlborough street, where he adminifters medical aid daily, and free of expenfe. The commercial world must feel fome afionishment at the extraordinary character of the Dublin Corporation of Merchants, whofe declarations are fo manifeftly hoftile to the independence of their country. They prefume to publish their unqualified approbation of the Union, and confequently their abhorrence of hip-building; for it is a melancholy fact, that not one veffel was built or purchased for foreign trade fince that fatal event. So that, we have merchants without ships, and corporations without property; yet thofe merchants are no more the merchants of Dublin, than the Corporation of Barbers include all the Shavers in Dublin. MONKS versus SIRR. The public will hear with much pleafure, that this important difpute is finally adjufted; that the Major very prudently ftifled the profecution by a douceur of fifty pounds paid to plaintiff, befides paying Mr. Arthur, Mr. Monks's Attorney, his bill of cofts. Monks is a blacksmith, and flood charged by certain parish officers in England, of a love affair in that country, where the chaftity of the fair is fo very eminently confpicuous. Monks being an athletic Hibernian, and as forward as any of his countrymen, after much difficulty lo prevailed on a Bri tih lady, that he admitted him to the laft freedom with her perfon, without ever confultingthe church, or the pa rifh officers, which the ftatutes fay fhould be done on fuch occafions. The confequence was, that a young English nailor was given to the Empire, or in the langue Militaire, a British grenadier was born unto his Majelty to carry the English crucifix over the cold meadows of Meath, or the burning fands of Indoftan. For this loyal and loving offence, Monks was purfued to Dublin, taken into cuftody, and committed to Newgate, where he remained charged for feveral days. Mr. Monks brought his action against Major Sirr, and the event was as we ftated. Laft week Mr. B, the Police Magiftrat's fale took place; the flock of cloths fold remarkably well. While the auctioneer was doing justice to the alignees, Mr. B was doing juf tice to the public. The Irish character is never debafed even in the most dif treng circumstances; it feems to rife in proportion to the difficulties it labours under. An Irishman may be unfortunate in trade-he may lofe by his credulity or giddinefs-he may be a bankrupt tradefman, a poor poet, an inaccurate hiftorian, an unfkilful stateman, or a hafty commander; but if enabled to discharge his mind from the anxiety which an uncertain and unfupplied table impofes on him, by an adequate falary, he will make an excellent judge. cellent judge. The wifdom of the Wellefleys have proved our opinion, by their difcernment: they have felected tradefmen without property, lawyers without briefs, and majors without commiffions; and never were men under fo many difadvantages more correct in their magifterial duties they trace a Rebel to his pike, and a Thief to his piftol, with fuch accuracy, that no apprehenfion need be felt by any man either for the ftability of the state, or the fafety of his property. 3 Y A very A very handsome monument to the memory of the late Juftice Bell, is preparing by an eminent artift. To immortalife the life and fervices of this great man, his hiftory is to be written in hieroglyphics, in the manner of the ancient Egyptians. Bibles, whips, daggers, bank-notes, and knife-boards, are fo dif, pofed on the pannels, as to give a fuccinct and explicit abbreviation of his Memoirs. The top is to finish, with a handfome piece of fculpture, reprefent ing Baron Hamilton's close flool. A confiderable party is formed and properly organized in this country to To obviate refift the Catholic Claims. any pretext for indulgence, which the Catholics urge for their fervices in the Army and Navy, the Ban yeomanry and Beresford's handfome light infantry, have volunteered to ferve in Por tugal, Sicily, India, and other foreign ftations, en condition that the British ranks may be purged of papills. While thefe Orange heroes are bearing the English ftandard to Victory, the ENNISKILLEN Juries have under taken to manage domeftic concerns, and will become a difpofeable force to at tend trials in any part of the country. Some days fince, a loyal Orange fhopkeeper, and his neighbour a Croppy, happened to take a little converfation together. The Orangeman, like a Raunch Williamsite, was bragging of the English Constitution; he faid, what every good Irishman would fay on fuch occafions, that the British Conflitution to as is the belt in the world, particularly fince we got fo clofely to it by the Union. Faith, fays Pat, which is the name he Croppy, if it is good, upon my foul they charge very high for it; for my part, I loft my own conftitution which I thought better than any thing ever made in England. I loft it, God be with it, in Beresford's; for the British Conftitution was put on my back, and it appeared fo fharp and heavy, that it cost me my life; but indeed neighbour I dont wonder at the injury the British Conftitution done my Conft tution-for, like poor Horish, f got only the TAIL end of it, and to my opinion neighbour william, though your cough is not fo bad as mine, I think your Conftitution is gone pretty far too; for, like many hundreds of your kind, who loft their Conftitutions in College-green, the tate of your COUNTER and kitchen convinces have loft either your apme, that you Pat had petite or your customers. fcarcely finished his harangue, when' two gentlemen entered the shop-one was Mr. Broome, the bailiff, the other Mr. J, the window-tax man; the former took poor William to the Sheriffs Prifon, while the latter took off his bed. Poor Pat fneaked into his fhop to take his phyfic, which closed the fcene of Constitution. The King of Sweden, as we pre dicted in a former number in our ac count of The ROYAL HOSPITAL, has landed in England, to take poffeffion of the apartments allotted to his Majelty in that municent establishment. We reafonably conjectured that his Imperial Majelty of Auftria would have, ere this, been added to the Lift of Royal Pau pers, and our calculation would have exactly correfponded with our affertions, had not his Sacred Majesty, by an unforeseen ftratagem, relieved himself from the travelling expedient, by exchanging his daughter for an Empire, His Majefty of the One Sicily, we allo expected on our hofpitable fhores, had not the hero of Maida, the gallant Stewart, whofe enmity to pries and Frenchien adds fo much to his fame, interpofed between poor Ferdinand and his rival Murat. Petitions are preparing on the part of the Irish Catholics, to be prefented to the British people, thefe begging docu ments If we are to judge of the British tem per towards our claims, by the fate of a late Memorial laid before a Society of Welch Jumpers, who uuanimously rejected it, we have little hopes of any fuccefs. The merits of the petition were scarcely entertained by the Board of Saints, as the difcuffion was stopped by Mr. Gwhydy, the barber and preacher, who infifted that no indulgence should be given to a nation of Popish barbarians, who gave fuch ungentlemanly reception to the regiment of Ancient Britons in 1798, when that gallant body of faints, foldiers, and ravishers vifited Ireland. A petition to the fouffer-makers and brafs-founders of Birmingham, is intended to be forwarded to that en lightened part of the English nation, whenever a perfon can be had to act as interpreter, by a knowledge of the Wedgbury dialect.-Lord Fingal, it is fuppofed, will hand it to the PO. LISHERS, his influence being very great in Birminghain for his attach ment to the conquering houfe of Wellefley, Lord Wellesley having behaved with particular indulgence to a regiment of Nailors, from Birmingham, whofe form of knees gave them a confiderable advantage over any other corps in the army for climbing the mountains in the late battle of Bufaco, and contributed much to the glorious victory obtained by Sir Arthur on that memorable occafion. KILKENNY FARMING CLUB: (Continued from page 500.) Hear you, hear you, hear you a manner of perfons who are unwilling to credit the increafing advantages of your country come forward to be arraigned for your incredulity: come now you fceptics, and after spending half an hour in viewing the head and the belly of the Farmers' Club, join, for you must join Spencer Perceval and his affociates in Ireland !!! extolling the growing profperity of Next to my Lord Lottery fat his fincere fupporter of every measure, prolick pittle Pat-that true Catholic, that pofed by our good friends in parliament for our advantage-that ftauuch prop of the old Catholic religion; that man whofe face is a picture of aufterity, and whofe whole frame befpeaks the mortification of an afcetic in his den :-his converfation was cold and difgufting, confifting entirely of the monofyllables yes and no," which he ufed according to the taste of the Head of the Club. And my dear Harry Muck Creafy, how could you leave the wife and the children? Oh! you came to promote the prosperity of Ireland, and to condemn the Magazine containing the cafe of Mary Magrath. Harry confcious that no efforts of any club can now prevent the fale of our Magazine in Kilkenny (where the inhabitants now know the advantages of fome work to reftrain and curb a proud aristocracy,) we with you, Harry, every fuccefs in all your over and undertakings, faid wifhes, fave and except that of appointing your little croney to be the bishop of a religion which you do not profefs. But why dont I fee Joe Trunk, that life and foul of the club? The Head of the Club has accounted for his abfence, in telling that he has got his hip diflocated by a fall from a mare he was rid .ing |